Excerpt from The Nicaraguan Canal Bill: Speech of Hon. Theodore E. Burton, of Ohio, in the House of Representatives, Tuesday, May 1, 1900, With Remarks Wednesday, May 2, 1900 The harbor at Brito is an open roadstead, but it is thought that it could be maintained by the construction of breakwaters. There is a headland to the north, but at the town of Brito there is a straight beach - no natural harbor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.